Relationi universali

New edition, after the original published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps by Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on grayed background. The work had numerous reprints in the 17th century.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Spine with raised bands, Jansenist style. Title in black ink.
Botero's universal geography is a means of evaluating the real power of all states. Botero wrote his Relazioni following his great political work "De la raison d'état" and cannot be understood except in its wake. While the work is a classic universal geography, with a description of all regions of the world then known in the first part, the other parts describe the world from a political and religious point of view, emphasizing the place of Catholic evangelism in the world. The book was originally commissioned by Cardinal Borromeo on the state of Christian religion in the world. The Relazioni are therefore the transmission of a geopolitical vision of the world, but placed from the angle of the Counter-Reformation. Botero attempts to join geographical space and political space, providing Catholicism and the Counter-Reformation with its future expansion. Many modern geographers made this work the birth charter of modern geography through the use of methods employed by Botero, even though the book offers a triple vision of the world (geographical, political and religious) and not unilaterally geographical.